Regions

Northern Mariana Islands

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This page serves as the primary resource for editors of the Northern Mariana Islands region. Review all the sections to better understand how the guidelines for this territory might deviate from the overall USA or worldwide guidelines. If you have any comments or questions about this page or territory refer to the community links below.

Buen binidu (Welcome) to the Wiki page for the Northern Mariana Islands!

Introduction

Hafa Adai! Welcome to CNMI!

The Northern Mariana Islands, also called Northern Marianas, and officially Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, are a self-governing commonwealth in association with the United States. The Commonwealth, composed of 22 islands and islets in the western Pacific Ocean, is a part of the Mariana Islands, a chain of volcanic mountain peaks and uplifted coral reefs. (The Marianas chain also includes the politically separate island of Guam, to the south.) Saipan (46.5 square miles [120 square km]), Tinian (39 square miles [101 square km]), and Rota (33 square miles [85 square km]) are the principal islands and, together with Anatahan, Alamagan, and Agrihan, are inhabited. Another island, Pagan, was evacuated in 1981 after a severe volcanic eruption there. The capital is on Saipan.

Thank you for your interest in editing the Waze maps for the Northern Mariana Islands. Please note we follow the US national guidance with a few exceptions. Be sure to click on and read every link from this page for in-depth tips, guidance and advice.

Tip: Editors are strongly encouraged to download & install the Waze Validator Plugin. This tool will identify map errors and offers guidance on how to fix them. Use this to identify issues in areas you are working on but make sure not to be distracted by errors that do not pertain to you.

Mapping resources

Before editing the maps in the Northern Mariana Islands region, be sure to fully review and understand the editing manual.

The Waze user community follows the Waze etiquette guidelines discussed in the Wiki. Be sure to familiarize yourself with these guiding principals while editing the maps and this Wiki, as well as when communicating with other Waze users.

English to Chamorro

Chamorro is an official language in the Northern Mariana Islands. This language shows up in street names.

Some states and territories manage a separate page on cities and towns to identify the specific city names that should be entered, and no others. For states that do not have a separate page to track the names, see this Wikipedia link and find the state or territory in question.

Major roads

The Northern Mariana Islands region follows the general road naming and road type guidelines of the USA.

In Northern Mariana Islands we have a set minimum standard for locking roads based on segment type. Any road of a certain segment type must be locked at least to the rank (level) in the chart below. Roads may be locked higher for protection and special situations (areas with construction, tricky design, frequent mistakes, imaging inaccuracies, and the like), but should not be locked lower.

A great time to implement these locks is while bringing the road types of an area into compliance with the current US road type standards (FC and highway systems). Lock the roads based on type after they've been set to current US road type standards.

Northern Mariana Islands Minimum Locking Rank Standard

Segment Type

Statewide

Freeway

5

Ramp

4

Major Highway

4

Minor Highway

3

Primary Street

2

Street

1

• • • • Ferry • • • •

5

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2

Special roads

Drivable roads

The Northern Mariana Islands region follows the standard USA guidelines for all of the following special road types.

Places

The Northern Mariana Islands region follows the USA standard for Places. Do not deviate from the guidelines without first obtaining consensus to do so via the territory forum linked on this page.

Locking Standard

Northern Mariana Islands Place Lock Level Standards

PLACE TYPE

LOCK LEVEL

Military Installation / Airport

4

Hospitals / Urgent Care / Police & Fire Dept

4

Gas Stations / Charging Stations

3

All Places that have complete information (to include, at a minimum, address/city, hours of operation, phone number) are to be locked at Level 2. This is to prevent loss of data due to automatic acceptance of Place Update submissions from Trusted Users, or Place Update Request approvals from other editors without careful examination.

If you do not have a high enough enough rank to lock the place as indicated, please lock it as high as you can, and notify a higher rank AM, SM, CM, or Champ to lock it higher.

Cameras

Not every camera-looking device at an intersection is a speed or red light camera. Generally speaking:

a speed camera takes a photograph of a vehicle when it passes by the camera at too high a speed.

a red light camera takes a photograph of a vehicle that enters an intersection after the light is red. In some areas, it takes the photograph when a vehicle is not clear of the intersection some period after the light turns red.

Area Managers

The table below identifies the editors also designated as Area Managers or higher who are editing in the Northern Mariana Islands region. If you have any questions, please consider contacting them directly as needed. If you are an Area Manager that covers the Northern Mariana Islands region, or a USA Country Manager that does a lot of work in the Northern Mariana Islands region, please add yourself to this list (alphabetical by username) in the correct rank section.

The editor who also serves as the Regional Coordinator for the Northern Mariana Islands region is automatically listed at the top of the table. That editor may not be highly active in this territory and therefore may not be listed separately in the table.